Eurythmy Performance

Now, in ordinary speech and singing, [that] the inner gesture that humans always have within them unconsciously when they speak or sing is suppressed, so to speak, and that the entire human posture when speaking or singing causes a kind of shutdown of the entire rest of the organism—except for the part that is concentrated in the speech or singing organs. However, the rest of the organism is actually always present when we speak or sing. And those who have acquired a certain finer sensitivity to this know that when they are not only speaking but also just listening, they actually always want to perform certain movements internally, movements that can be just as much an expression of the soul and spirit as spoken language and singing. These movements are actually always suppressed in everyday life – especially the most important ones.